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Bitcoin has been a “monster in financial markets” even though it hasn’t hit the most optimistic 2025 price targets, says Anthony Pompliano. Bitcoin’s lack of an exciting year-end price rally may be the catalyst that prevents a significant crash in the first quarter of next year, according to Bitcoin entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano. “Given where the volatility is right now, it would be very surprising that Bitcoin’s volatility has drastically compressed and yet still could get a 70% or 80% drawdown,” Pompliano said during an interview on CNBC on Tuesday. Pompliano said the short-term disappointment from Bitcoin (BTC) holders over the asset not reaching $250,000 this year overlooks the broader performance. “We have to remember that Bitcoin is up 100% in two years. It’s up almost 300% in three years. It has been compounding,” he said.  Read more

Bitcoin trades near $87K as fear rises and altcoin season fades. Technical signals suggest consolidation, with $84.5K support key to the next BTC move. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Trapped in Downward Channel as $90K Pivot Looms appeared first on Cryptonews.

Shiba Inu plunged 66% year-over-year and recorded its first weekly death cross while breaking below the $0.00000135 support level that held since 2023, with analysts declaring the token "dead" unless it reclaims key technical thresholds. The post Shiba Inu Price Prediction: Fear Grips Traders As SHIB Posts 66% Price Decrease YoY appeared first on Cryptonews.

Rain crypto has gained 125% over the past 30 days, pushing its market cap to over $2.7B, making it one of Arbitrum's largest coins. This rise follows a speculative surge, driven by partnerships like Enlivex Therapeutics and high investor interest, leaving many wondering if it can hit a new all-time high soon. The post Rain Price Prediction: Can RAIN Hit a New ATH This Week, Trading Just 5% Below appeared first on Cryptonews.

Crypto.com is enhancing its presence in prediction markets by recruiting a quantitative trader to staff a new market-making desk. This decision raises concerns over possible conflicts of interest, as the exchange would be actively trading against its customers, while its competitors face similar challenges. The post Crypto.com Hires Internal Market Maker for Predictions – Is the Exchange Trading Against Users? appeared first on Cryptonews.

New data shows business-linked wallets dominate stablecoin volume on Ethereum, signaling real-world payment adoption.

Two months after Trump’s tariff headline detonated a historic liquidation cascade, Bitcoin is still stuck in a different kind of market, one with less leverage, thinner liquidity, and a weaker bid from ETFs Bitcoin is sitting in the mid $80,000s again, and the vibe feels nothing like early October, when everyone was still talking like […] The post Crypto traders say “something broke” after in October, the data says the market really did change appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Former-FTX US president Brett Harrison’s Architect Financial Technologies secured $35 million to build an institutional trading platform spanning crypto, equities, and futures. Brett Harrison, the former president of the now-defunct FTX US exchange, has closed a $35 million funding round for his new derivatives venture, signaling renewed investor confidence in the sector and continued venture appetite for crypto-linked derivatives infrastructure. On Tuesday, The Information reported that Harrison’s startup, Architect Financial Technologies, is using the funding to build an institutional trading platform spanning derivatives, equities, futures and digital assets. Participants in the round included Miax, Tioga Capital, ARK Investment, Galaxy and VanEck. The new capital follows a $12 million funding round in 2024 backed by Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, SALT Fund and other investors. Read more

The Aave community has become sharply divided over control of the protocol’s brand and related assets, intensifying an ongoing dispute over the relationship between the DAO and Aave Labs.

Crypto-linked stocks had a banner start to 2025, then spent the rest of the year learning that narrative alone doesn’t compound.

The project recently received approval to raise private, tax-deductible funding under Brazil’s cultural incentive laws, with a live performance planned in the federal capital. An experimental orchestral project in Brazil aims to convert Bitcoin price data into live music, after receiving approval to raise funds through one of the country’s tax-incentive programs for cultural initiatives. According to Brazil's Federal Register, the authorization allows the project to seek up to 1.09 million reais ($197,000) from private companies and individual donors for an instrumental concert that uses financial data to generate music, drawing on concepts from art, mathematics, economics and physics. The publication does not specify whether any blockchain or onchain infrastructure will be used in the performance. The performance will take place at the country's federal capital, Brasília. Read more

VanEck's David Schassler expects gold and bitcoin to rebound sharply as investor demand for hard assets is expected to rise.

The hard fork on Monday followed a majority of Gnosis validators adopting a soft fork in response to a November Balancer exploit, in which about $116 million in crypto was stolen. Gnosis chain operators executed a hard fork to recover funds tied to a $116 million Balancer exploit in November. In a Tuesday X post following a notice for node operators, Gnosis said it executed a hard fork to recover some of the funds from a significant exploit of Balancer. The project said the funds were “out of the hacker's control,” signaling a partial or full recovery. The hard fork, executed on Monday, followed a majority of validators adopting a soft fork in November in response to the Balancer exploit affecting “Balancer‑managed contracts on Gnosis Chain.” Read more

Miner stress increased as lower prices and higher costs pushed hash rate to its sharpest decline since April 2024.

Charts suggest the bulls will try to defend the support levels in ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL and DOGE, but higher levels are likely to attract sellers. The cryptocurrency market witnessed pockets of outperformance from select altcoins in 2025, but a broad-based altcoin rally failed to materialize. According to CoinMarketCap data, Bitcoin (BTC) did not breach its yearly low dominance of 55.5% hit on Jan. 5, signaling that traders did not abandon BTC and rush into altcoins. Glassnode said in a recent post on X that nearly all crypto sectors had underperformed BTC over the past three months, signaling “a market environment where capital concentration favors BTC.” Could the major altcoins make a comeback in 2026? Let’s analyze the charts of the top five major altcoins to find out. Read more

XRP price prediction sees potential for a rise beyond $3 in 2026, driven by institutional interest. With over $1B in cumulative inflows from five XRP spot ETFs, and social sentiment signaling a market bottom, XRP could regain strength. A breakout setup hints at bullish continuation above $2.00. The post XRP Price Prediction: Franklin Templeton’s Spot ETF Tops 100M XRP in Holdings – Can Institutional Demand Push XRP Above $3? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Koinly has notified users of a potential email address breach resulting from a third-party service provider, Mixpanel. Despite the breach, sensitive financial data, tax records, and wallet information remain secure, with Koinly assuring users it did not share such details with Mixpanel. The post Koinly Warning: Third-Party Breach Exposes User Emails – Is Your Tax Data Safe? appeared first on Cryptonews.

On the day Bitcoin finally punched through $100,000, a lot of people did the same thing. They screenshotted it. They sent it to group chats, posted it with rocket emojis, and pulled up old tweets from 2021 to dust off the victory laps they had been saving for years. It felt like closure, like the […] The post Fact check: Bitcoin never really hit $100,000 in 2025 when you apply real world data appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Xen Baynham-Herd has described an on-chain future, where apps feel as familiar as smartphone tools. He has said Base is prioritising user experience, distribution, and product integration over fee races, while tracking adoption through user growth and engagement rather than token prices alone. The post Xen Baynham-Herd on Building Base: From Experimental L2s to Real On-chain Adoption appeared first on Cryptonews.

The site acquisition gives Bitcoin miner Cipher a foothold in the largest US wholesale power market as miners broaden their infrastructure strategies. Cipher Mining has acquired a 200-megawatt power site in Ohio called “Ulysses,” marking its first expansion outside of Texas and entry into the PJM wholesale electricity market, the largest power market in the United States. According to Tuesday’s announcement, the 195-acre site has secured power capacity from AEP Ohio, with all required utility agreements in place, and is expected to be energized in the fourth quarter of 2027. Cipher said the facility is suitable for high-performance computing and data center use in addition to Bitcoin (BTC) mining. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read more